“Sorrow is no more your name,” Ama announced, her voice louder. “Now I call you Fury.” Year published: 2018 Categories: YA, fantasy Summary: Ama awakens in the arms of a handsome prince, remembering nothing of her past or who she is. She is told that she has been rescued from a fearsome dragon, that she… Continue reading

“I see you in the light of the water, in the swaying of the young trees in the spring wind. I see you in the shadows of the great oaks, I hear your voice in the cry of the owl at night.” Year published: 1999 Categories: Adult, fantasy, retelling (The Six Swans) Summary: Lovely Sorcha… Continue reading

“The giant Grof was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind and he died of what he saw there.” Year published: 1974 Categories: Adult, fantasy Summary: the young sorceress Sybel lives alone on her mountain, surrounded by the marvelous, ancient beasts of legend… Continue reading

“When the world denies you choices, you make your own.” Year published: 2018 Categories: YA, fantasy LGBTQIA representation: F/F, main character, her love interest and side characters Summary: in this richly developed fantasy, Lei is a member of the Paper caste, the lowest and most persecuted class of people in Ikhara. She lives in a… Continue reading

“But we’re not on our own anymore. We’re all here together, we’re all Lord Anluan’s people, the people of the Tor, and there’s enough strength in us to do the right things and make the right choices.” Year published: 2009 Categories: Adult, fantasy, retelling (Beauty and the Beast) Summary: this is a retelling of the… Continue reading

“No one had ever told me that I was allowed to scream.” Year published: 2022 Categories: Adult, fantasy/horror, retelling (The Juniper Tree) LGBTQIA representation: F/F, side character Summary: A gruesome curse. A city in upheaval. A monster with unquenchable appetites. Marlinchen and her two sisters live with their wizard father in a city shifting from… Continue reading

“Love is a gift that’s given. Trust is a coin that’s earned.” Year published: 2016 Categories: Novella(s), urban fantasy, historical fantasy, LGBTQIA representation: M/M, main character and his love interest Summary: Diago Alvarez, a singular being of daimonic and angelic descent, is pulled into the ranks of Los Nefilim in order to protect his newly-found… Continue reading

Year published: 2005 Categories: Adult fantasy LGBTQ representation: M/M, main character, his abuser and side characters, F/F, side characters Summary: Felix Harrowgate is a dashing, highly respected wizard. But his aristocratic peers don’t know his dark past — how his abusive former master enslaved him, body and soul, and trained him to pass as a… Continue reading

“Is love that get the Robber Queen born.” Year published: 2000 Categories: Adult, sci-fi Summary: it’s Carnival time, and the Carribean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance and pageantry. Masked “Midnight Robbers” waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. But to young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favourite costume to… Continue reading

“If I scream forever, they will have to hear me forever.” Year published: 2021 Categories: YA, magical realism, retelling (The Snow Queen) LGBTQIA representation: pansexuality, main character Summary: Graciela Cristales’s whole world changes after she and a boy she barely knows are assaulted at the same party. She loses her gift for making enchanted pan… Continue reading